'Squinch' definitions:

A small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)

Crouch down

Draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail]

Cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; "The children squinted so as to scare each other" [syn: squint, squinch]